On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:13:55PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > I think this specific case needs more thinking. > > If the allocation fails, and it's GFP_ATOMIC, we are going to yield() > (which sleeps) and loop endlessly waiting for the allocation to > succeed. Indeed. We could do one of the following: 1) Preallocate, either universally or conditinally on sk_allocation. 2) Set a bit somewhere to indicate FIN and retry the allocation as part of retransmit. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
